Manual

NDERSTANDING PARALLAX

Parallax is the apparent movement of the target relative to the reticle when

you move your eye away from the center point of the eyepiece. It occurs

when the target does not fall on the same optical plane as the reticle.

Maximum parallax occurs when your eye is at the very edge of the exit

pupil. (Even in this unlikely event, our 4x hunting scope focused for 150

yards has a maximum error of only 8/10ths of an inch at 500 yards.)

At short distances, the parallax effect does not affect accuracy. (Using the

same 4x scope at 100 yards, the maximum error is less than 2/10ths of an

inch.) It is also good to remember that, as long as you are sighting straight

through the middle of the scope, or close to it, parallax will have virtually

no effect on accuracy in a hunting situation.

BOUT FIXED PARALLAX DISTANCE SCOPES

Any fixed focus optical system can be adjusted to be parallax free at

only one distance. Most Leupold scopes are adjusted at the factory to be

parallax-free at 150 yards.

However, there are exceptions: